Linux may have more than one desktop environment, but if youre making the switch for the first time, GNOME is the one youre most likely to encounter. Its the interface embraced by many of the most popular Linux operating systems (distributions), such as Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora. GNOME is pretty easy to figure out. Weve provided a general explanation of the desktop and our beginners guide to Ubuntu goes even more in-depth.

The COUCHMASTER cycon from nerdytec is all about comfort while gaming on your couch on a PC further away. With four USB 3.0 ports and cable management being an integral part of the design, this provides universal compatibility for the peripherals of your choosing while also having enough space to add in accessories for your phone, snacks and more.

Although NVIDIA officially unveiled its Volta-based GV100 GPU over seven months ago, and an unwitting intern may have leaked pictures of the card we’re going to show you here today shortly thereafter, the NVIDIA TITAN V featuring the GV100 GPU began shipping just this past week. The NVIDIA TITAN V targets a very specific audience and is designed for professional and academic deep learning applications, which partly explains its lofty $3,000 price tag...

The core components of a 14in Razer Blade in a larger 17.3in body. Enthusiast gamers in the market for a powerful 17in laptop would be right to have the Razer Blade Pro on their wish list. Introduced as Razer's take on a modern desktop replacement, the flagship Blade Pro packs an Intel Core i7 processor, GeForce GTX 1080 graphics, 32GB of memory, a 512GB SSD and a 4K IGZO display touchscreen supporting Nvidia G-Sync.

All that and more in a laptop measuring less than 23mm thick? Razer Blade Pro is no doubt impressive, but there is a rather large obstacle in the form of a giant £3,800 price tag. Such lofty positioning has thus far limited the laptop's appeal to a niche audience and Razer is now hoping to entice more users with an alternative model dubbed the Blade Pro Full HD.

Air-cooled Vega done right? The AMD Radeon RX Vega GPU was trumpeted as a serious challenger to the dominance displayed by Nvidia's range of premium GeForce cards. RX Vega did come in, eventually, released in reference form during August.

One would have expected partner models to arrive on shelves very shortly afterwards, differentiated on cooling, design, and performance, but this did not happen. In fact, even four months after launch, the only models of RX Vega that you can buy are based on reference air- and water-cooling designs from AMD.

Why? That is a question with many possible answers, and the one that appears to fit best is that AMD has been slow to release Asics and board designs to customers such as Sapphire and Asus. AMD has missed a serious monetisation opportunity in the run-up to the holiday season, but as the adage goes, it's better late than never.

Sapphire's engineers took their sweet time creating a graphics card that heats up the third-party Vega 64 market by staying cooler than the competition. We run its Radeon RX Vega 64 Nitro+ through our test suite.

Sapphire took its time getting a home-grown Radeon RX Vega card to market, and that's not a bad thing. While some competitors sneakily seeded production validation test boards (the ones that precede mass production), Sapphire kept to itself and made sure the Radeon RX Vega 64 Nitro+ was running well. When you think back to the issues those leaked cards demonstrated, Sapphire did well to keep its efforts quiet until the right time.

Almost four months ago to the day, AMD launched its flagship consumer graphics card: RX Vega 64. Now, after what has felt like an age, we can present our first review of an aftermarket Vega 64 card - the Sapphire Nitro+ Limited Edition model. Measuring 31cm long, and 5.4cm thick, it is nothing short of a monster. It even requires THREE 8-pin PCIe power connectors to function and comes with a support bracket to prevent GPU sag. Could this be the aftermarket card we were all hoping for when Vega 64 first launched?

The latest all-in-one CPU cooler that we're looking at today is the Thermaltake Floe Riing RGB 240 TT Premium Edition. The name is quite a mouthful, granted, but it explains everything you need to know about the product in one fowl swoop. The RGB CPU cooler arrives in 3 different flavours, depending on the size of the radiator that you choose; 240mm (2x 120mm), 280mm (2x 140mm) or 360mm (3x 120mm).